Stop Me Before I Vote Again

Michael, I just really like that painting. Sparked me out of my morning indifference today, in any case!

Hear, hear. Or - I am very much enjoying my own serene indifference to the whole process, precisely because it seems reasonably likely that one of these buffoons will be the next president.

Ditto on the painting.

I cannot claim indifference. I am having too much fun watching the spectacle. The enjoyment is much more active for me, however trashy the whole thing is. Plus, there's all the furious email from across the political spectrum, the Facebook postings --- all wonderful diversions from the pin factory.

Remember, Michael, this is the latest installment of that biennial miniseries: THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVER.

Turn on,Tune in,Drop out.

OK, I sought some assistance from Wikipedia on this topic, as follows:

"Clowns are comic performers stereotypically characterized by the grotesque image of the circus clown's colored wigs, stylistic makeup, outlandish costumes, unusually large footwear, and red nose, which evolved to project their actions to large audiences. Other less grotesque styles have also developed, including theatre, television, and film clowns. Peter Berger writes that 'It seems plausible that folly and fools, like religion and magic, meet some deeply rooted needs in human society.' For this reason, clowning is often considered an important part of training as a physical performance discipline, partly because tricky subject matter can be dealt with, but also because it requires a high level of risk and play in the performer."

In brief, I believe there are two candidates who are not clowns (or stuffed shirts). Mr. Obama is to my perception more a conjurer and performer of minor (not major) magic tricks (he has Mr. Biden to perform the "clown" function).

Mr. Paul is neither a clown nor a conjurer, more likely an oracle, as he seems never to desist from telling the truth as he sees it, and he is well-informed, unlike most (not all) other representatives of the broad Republican field. Let me clarify, I differ with Mr. Paul on many matters, as do you. However, he is the only one of the candidates actually to espouse some of your positions and mine, among them, opposition to entangling foreign commitments, radical deinstitutionalization (abolition of "most Federal government agencies"), opposition to the Patriot Act and the use of torture, etc.

Of benefit to your main point, there are sufficient clowns in the field (if not more) to correlate point for point with the population of 5 you have depicted. Also of interest, traditionally the functions of priest and clown have been performed by the same persons.

i must gain say father on this ....
otherwise you all might imagine you're in for four years of frolic come january 2013

"...it seems reasonably likely that one of these buffoons (or perhaps the stuffed shirt) will be the next president"

absent some 11th hour tussle

come next november
we'll have nothing to look forward to
but four more years of oh barry
to kick around

ions in political time ions ...
underneath this penn ave grid lock
perhaps movements can florish
and this now twilight zoned era
draw jerkily to Her demise

i just visited mr hunt's blog

seems he believes in the withering away
of the corporate rent sumps
that is
so long as uncle's central plan gets smashed to bitter bits by a rising tide
of gold bugs libertarian nerds and
various other
now marginalized
goat fuckers junk beaters
and horse fly eaters

we can bloc with him comrades

he's a staunch enemy of hegemonic armadas

he would have our limited liability corporations stripped
of their swaddling cloths
their personhood and their rent sumps
and sent out across borders
unarmed and ready to trade
with whatever is out there

I have reviewed op's lyric transformation of my post/blog. I think op has got it pretty well right, perhaps with the exception that I believe the marginalized knowers of goats, et ali, will have much mainstream company, most likely by the end of the present decade (perhaps that is the "rising tide"). Also, I am a fierce advocate of title registration. Just saying that shareholders don't have to participate in ventures that abuse said title to create instant results for leveraged speculators at their expense. Only the marketplace can determine value (and it has already devalued the Wall Street "game," it is self-extinguishing). Wall Street can be "deserted" now.

I've never understood the amount of time Dems spend morbidly reading about--almost reveling in--the inanity of the Repubs. Maybe it's the only way they can privately justify continuing to vote for the capital D's. Maybe it gives their lives meaning. Who knows.

I'm with OP: Zerobama has this one in the bag. Look at the cash, if nothing else.